The Annual Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner in Vancouver is a fundraiser for 3 extraordinary organizations:
- The Historic Joy Kogawa House,
- Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop, and
- the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team.
The 2009 dinner was held Sunday January 25th, at the Floata Restaurant in Vancouver Chinatown. We celebrated the actual date of Robbie Burns’ 250th Anniversary birthday, on the same day as Chinese New Year’s Eve, welcoming the Year of the Ox.
Featured image: Emily Carr, Toddish McWong, James Cleland Richardson, Joy Kogawa, John Foster McCreight (BC’s first Premier), King Freezy (Songhees Chief), Emery Barnes… courtesy of the Royal BC Museum. The picture in front is of Robbie Burns’ house. Photo by Lydia Nagai.
Click on the gallery for more pictures of Joy at the Gung Haggis dinner!
So Joy…. was there in GREAT SPIRIT!!!